One seat is open on the Arlington School Board, a five-member body that helps oversee the public school system of roughly 23,000 students in Northern Virginia. Two candidates, Mary B. Kadera and Major ...

The family of a girl who authorities say suffered years of sexual abuse by a relative is taking the unusual step of waging a legal fight against a Virginia prosecutor to try to win a longer sentence ...

It took 45 years, but a Washington wedding band called Sixpence has become an overnight sensation. A grainy, black-and-white video of the cover band performing a note-perfect cover of Queen’s ...

Robert Marchand, a diminutive Frenchman who once was told he would never excel in cycling only to set world records as a centenarian, died May 22 at a care facility in Mitry-Mory, France, outside ...

Rain or shine, there will be cake, and on Wednesday, huddling underneath umbrellas, the group of labor rights activists carried their latest to Sen. Mark R. Warner’s doorstep in Alexandria, Va. It was ...

A former executive director of the historic Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta and her husband have pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bank fraud stemming from the embezzlement of more than $150,000 ...

Engulfed in the crush of rioters storming the Capitol, D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith sent his wife a text that spoke to the futility and fears of his mission. “London has fallen,” the 35-year-old ...

A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and FBI official from Virginia has emerged as a “key figure” in the federal investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, as U.S. prosecutors alleged Thursday ...

In a remarkable feat of theatrical longevity, actor Hal Holbrook, who died Jan. 23 at 95, played Samuel Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — in a solo show for nearly as long as the American ...

The manhunt for key figures in last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol led to more arrests Thursday, including two men accused of attacking police officers, two witnesses to the shooting of a rioter and ...

As President Trump told a sprawling crowd outside the White House that they should never accept defeat, hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in what amounted to an attempted coup that ...

Nearly three dozen people were arrested during a night of unrest in downtown Washington that began Saturday with rallies supporting President Trump and descended into chaos and violence as a group ...